Tooled and polished for maximum epater le bourgeois value by gleeful bad boys Paul Verhoeven and Joe Eszterhas, BASIC INSTINCT (1992) was many things, including controversial, vulgar, preposterously plotted, gory, defiantly un-PC, dazzlingly art-directed, and utterly nonsensical and shamelessly smutty in a deeply juvenile way. But it was never dull. If only...read more